Crafts and Life

Southern girl Verity Long is about as high society as her pet skunk. Which is why she’s surprised as anyone when the new head of the Sugarland social set invites her to join the "it" girls. But this is no social call. Verity’s new client needs her to go in undercover and investigate strange happenings at the group’s historic headquarters.

But while spirits are whispering hints of murder, the socialites are more focused on Verity’s 1978, avocado-green Cadillac. And when Verity stumbles upon a fresh body, she's going to need the long-dead citizens of Sugarland to help her solve the crime. Good thing she has the handsome deputy sheriff Ellis Wydell on hand, as well as her ghostly sidekick Frankie. The bad thing is, the ghosts are now whispering about the end of a certain ghost hunter.

This book opens with Verity and her significant other Ellis enjoying some precious together/down time when Verity gets an odd phone call saying there has been a murder at the Sugarland Historical Society and at the same time Ellis gets a call saying the society has been broken into.  So far so normal, except there isn't a body but when Verity turns up the next day she is asked by the current president of the society to look into some ghostly happenings – and the following day Verity finds the president dead at the bottom of the Society staircase!

Now with her ever present ghost Frankie, her boyfriend Ellis and (very surprisingly) her almost mother in law, Verity needs to find a killer (oh and at the same time find out the truth about the Widow and Orphan house), which would be easier if Frankie wasn't a) running scared from another gangster and b) seems to have fallen in love with one of the aforementioned Widows or Orphan! Who said death was easy?